'Pandemics, even as they cause untold suffering, also reveal long-held cultural attitudes and differing beliefs about trust in science,' write historians Jennifer Le Zotte and Jacob Steere-Williams for CNNOpinion.
is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is the author of"From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies." Jacob Steere-Williams is an associate professor of history at the College of Charleston and author of the forthcoming book"The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practice of Epidemiology in Victorian England." The views expressed here are theirs. Read more opinion on CNN.
Pandemics, even as they cause untold suffering, do more than create new problems. They reveal long-held cultural attitudes, approaches to faith in governance and differing beliefs about individual rights and trust in science. Historically speaking, these myriad responses reemerge from pandemic to pandemic in recycling patterns of seemingly historical truisms. We ignore, we deny, we blame.
Jennifer Le Zotte Jacob Steere-WilliamsIn the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, an outrageous suggestion by President Donald Trump on Thursday — that injecting household disinfectants might help those suffering from the disease — is being met rightly with vehement pushback from scientists and even the manufacturers of the products.
See Dr. Birx's reaction to Trump's dangerous suggestion 04:20But quickly there was widespread recognition of the dangers of carbolic acid: damaged tissue on surgeon's hands, accidental poisoning and suicides. Samuel Rideal, an English health officer, chemist, and author of the 1895"Disinfection and Disinfectants," noted that carbolic acid had been inhaled, ingested and absorbed through the human skin"with dangerous, and even fatal, effects.
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